The MRC Consortium for Medical Microbial Bioinformatics

Abstract

The UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK and SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, in partnership with the UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM and CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, propose a programme of capital expenditure, recruitment and training to create the MRC CONSORTIUM FOR MEDICAL MICROBIAL BIOINFORMATICS, a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary facility, led by Professor Mark Pallen (an MD PhD at Warwick) and Dr Sam Sheppard in Swansea, for use by the academic, industrial and healthcare communities that will enhance regional and national capability and infrastructure in microbial bioinformatics and improve our understanding of bacteria of medical importance.

RATIONALE: Microbial pathogens still present a MAJOR EXISTENTIAL THREAT to humanity. In addition, the HUMAN MICROBIOME - the rich and dynamic community of host-associated microorganisms and their genes - is now known to play a decisive role in the balance between health and disease, even in medical conditions not usually considered as microbial in origin (e.g. obesity). Harnessing medical bioinformatics to the study of microbial genes, genomes and metagenomes thus represents a DISTINCTIVE UNMET CHALLENGE and a UNIQUE FOCUS AMONG RESPONSES TO THIS MRC CALL. Rather than taking aim at the fixed, relatively tractable target of the human genome, we focus instead on genomic information derived from HUNDREDS OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENS and THOUSANDS OF COMMENSAL SPECIES: a distributed and dynamic system of MANY MILLIONS OF GENES, at least two orders of magnitude larger than the human gene set.

Our four research-active universities are located in neighbouring regions of the UK, thus providing an initial GEOGRAPHICAL COHESION to the Consortium that will facilitate community building and the exchange of ideas, and underpin the formalities of governance. At its inception, the Consortium will benefit from a NATIONAL AND GLOBAL REACH through a dense network of collaborations, collegiality and, through an application process for new partners, will soon grow in a scalable fashion to embrace a national remit.

The Consortium will build on TRACK RECORDS OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE and impressive INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT in medical microbiology and bioinformatics with all partners making a distinctive contribution. Through this initiative we will recruit THREE HIGHLY TALENTED INDIVIDUALS into microbial bioinformatics fellowships from careers outside the discipline or the country. We have LEVERAGED SUPPORT from the host organisations to place these research fellows on a TENURE TRACK. All three fellows will contribute to the goals of the Consortium through research, training and management roles as well as pushing forward their own cutting-edge research programmes.

Building on interests in parallelisation and cloud computing, we will develop a DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE in Wales and the West Midlands that will provide an agile, scalable system for the UK microbiology research community.

We will develop an ambitious and exciting TRAINING PROGRAMME that will include bootcamps, hackathons, workshops, modules and courses, suitable for a wide range of users from professional bioinformaticians to undergraduate students.

We will strengthen regional, national and international microbial bioinformatics research through COMMUNITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES, encouraging knowledge transfer and dissemination of best practice. Meetings of different sorts and scale will be held monthly and quarterly and annually. The Annual Meeting, with an academic and management component, will benefit from participation by our external Steering Group.

We will exploit pump-priming funds together with externally funded research activities to "stress our systems", confirming that the facilities that we have created work as planned and/or priming iterative refinements to our infra-structure. We are confident that the consortium will become self-sustaining through institutional commitments and the recruitment of additional research funding.

Technical Summary

The MRC CONSORTIUM FOR MEDICAL MICROBIAL BIOINFORMATICS (CMMB) will enhance UK capability and infrastructure in microbial bioinformatics. Led by Mark Pallen and Sam Sheppard, the CMMB will recruit THREE HIGHLY TALENTED INDIVIDUALS into UK medical microbial bioinformatics from careers outside the discipline or the country.

We will develop a DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE that will operate together to provide: 1. AN AGILE, SCALABLE SYSTEM available to consortium members that can be dynamically provisioned to handle different workloads/projects as needed; this will include:-FOUR CLUSTERS (one on each site) providing a heterogeneous mix of high-memory/low CPU and low-memory/high CPU servers suitable for both memory-intensive tasks (e.g. metagenomic assembly) and CPU-intensive activities.-SUBSTANTIAL STORAGE (>2 petabytes). -sufficient NETWORK CAPACITY for each site to operate at 10 gigabit/second connectivity.2. a web-based instance of the GALAXY PLATFORM customised for medical microbial research. 3. a freely accessible DATABASE of relevant workflows, pipelines, scripts, programs, virtual machine images built on Galaxy/Github and mirrored across our sites.4. a DATA ARCHIVE of relevant microbial (meta)genomes5. a computational infrastructure for linking PATIENT METADATA with microbial (meta)genomic data.

We will develop an ambitious and exciting TRAINING PROGRAMME that will include bootcamps, hackathons, workshops, modules and courses, suitable for a wide range of users from professional bioinformaticians to undergraduate students. We will strengthen national microbial bioinformatics research through COMMUNITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES, encouraging knowledge transfer and dissemination of best practice. We will exploit pump-priming funds together with externally funded research activities to "stress our systems", confirming that the facilities that we have created work as planned and/or priming ITERATIVE REFINEMENTS TO OUR INFRA-STRUCTURE

Planned Impact

This research will be of benefit to a range of beneficiaries outside the academic discipline of medical microbiology:

CLINICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH MICROBIOLOGISTS, clinicians and INFECTION CONTROL TEAMS working within the HEALTH SERVICES, including regionally and locally with NHS TRUSTS in Wales and the West Midlands and further afield and nationally with Public Health England and Public Health Wales. These users will be able to use our computational infrastructure to integrate clinical informatics systems, patient metadata, epidemiological disease patterns and microbial (meta)genomic data to elucidate modes and routes of transmission, detect outbreaks, explore the relationships between potential pathogens and disease, with IMPACTS ON HEALTH and WELL-BEING, DISEASE PREVENTION, MANAGEMENT OF INFECTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE. This initiative will also bring new opportunities for productive engagement between the healthcare sector and the academic sector, so that research findings and approaches can be more easily TRANSLATED INTO OUTCOMES that impact on patient management.

INDUSTRIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH USERS interested in developing NEW THERAPEUTICS, VACCINES OR DIAGNOSTIC TESTS for microbial pathogens by, for example, allowing them to explore genotypic diversity when evaluating novel targets. A greater understanding of the microbiota may also deliver new approaches for dealing with conditions not normally thought of ainfectiions, e.g inflammatory bowel disease, or obesity.

COMMERCIAL BENEFICIARIES include SEQUENCING COMPANIES, COMPUTER COMPANIES and PRIVATE LABORATORIES, who stand to benefit from increased demand for their products and opportunities for innovation and spread of best practice(NB: both Solexa and Oxford nanopore sequencing were developed within the UK, with benefits to our economy).

POLICY MAKERS, who will benefit from grounding their PUBLIC POLICY and LEGISLATION, e.g. on food safety, on a MORE SOLID UNDERSTANDING of bacterial evolution, epidemiology, population genetics and taxonomy. NB: Applicants, particularly Mark Achtman, have been at the forefront of efforts to identify and classify foodborne bacteria using a RATIONAL AND DISCRIMINATORY SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION.

The WIDER PUBLIC will benefit from the positive impacts on the NATION'S HEALTH,, including the CONTROL and PREVENTION OF INFECTION and the DEVELOPMENT of new interventions.

This work will also make a decisive contribution through employment and training to enhancing the PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH SKILLS BASE of the United Kingdom

A workshop was held at Warwick for a mixed audience of postgraduate students, post docs and PIs using the CLIMB infrastructure and know how to teach the fundamentals of genome annotation. More people signed up to have a CLIMB account after the workshop.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

Balti and Bioinformatics 2016

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

Each year one of the CLIMB fellows runs a bioinformatics course at Birmingham University with the aim of building a community forum for bioinformaticians to talk openly about problems they are encountering, and get the benefit of a diverse group of people in discussions. This has led to connections made that have extended beyond the meetings.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015,2016

Description

Bath University HPC Symposium keynote

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A talk about the CLIMB project: how the cloud was built and the service that the CLIMB project provides for the academic community.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Bioinformatics workshop in Norwich

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

A bioinformatics workshop was run in Norwich using the MRC-CLIMB infrastructure. Attendants' excitement about the platform resulted in more users and more accesses to CLIMB from Norwich Research Institutions.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

CLIMB AT THE SMBE SATELLITE MEETING IN ASSAM, INDIA

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

MRC CLIMB project was presented at the SMBE Satellite meeting "Evolution of microbes in natural and experimental populations" . The meeting took took place in Assam (India) on 14th-16th December 2017, and was hosted by Dr. Siddartha Satapathy and Prof. Suvendra Ray (Tezpur University, Assam, India).During the MRC CLIMB session, Sam Sheppard and Sion Bayliss (both from University of Bath) introduced the MRC CLIMB project, described the infrastructure and detailed the Virtual Machine provisioning model. Sion Bayliss gave an introduction to methodologies used in the analysis of whole genome sequence data for microbial genomics. Dr. Harry Thorpe (University of Bath) provided a video walk-through of a data analysis project, from raw data to phylogenetic tree, by way of a user testimonial for CLIMB. MRC-CLIMB project was well welcomed, as researchers could recognize the power of cloud computing in bioinformatics analysis, the reduced cost it can represent for institutions, and the easy-to-use solutions that CLIMB implemented to facilitate the job for microbiologists. Manifestation of interest in how to build a CLIMB-like infrastructure is one of the best result of this activity.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

CLIMB WORKSHOP AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT, HO CHI MINH

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

A successful MRC CLIMB workshop in Vietnam introduced attendees to CLIMB and to work with their own virtual machine. Participants enthusiastically used CLIMB and its tools to assemble bacterial genomes, and the discussions after the meeting highlighted the importance of a CLIMB-like infrastructure to empower scientific research. New contacts and collaborations were created.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

CLIMB at the RCUK-WG in London

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

On January 8, 2018, CLIMB was introduced at the third RCUK Cloud Working Group at the Francis Crick Institute in London. CLIMB adopted cloud solutions for microbial research, and the public well received the approach adopted by the Project. CLIMB approach saves time, money, and effort of researchers making scientific research faster and by providing researchers with tools they wouldn't have access to by their own. CLIMB supports almost 300 research groups in the UK. Despite the power of cloud, many biologists find that using cloud resources is quite complex to their analyses (e.g. installing software stacks). MRC-CLIMB ideated and created an appropriate infrastructure that allows researchers to rapidly and easily access preconfigured instances (designed on their needs), on demand.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2018

Description

CLIMB launch event

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

In July 2016 the CLIMB team held a launch event to introduce CLIMB (the project) and the bioinformatics service offered to UK academics. The audience was a mix from principal investigators to post graduate students. There was also participation from industrial partners and Public Health organisations.This two day event included a demonstration on how to sign up to and use CLIMB and also talks from researchers who have used CLIMB., talking about how CLIMB has helped their research. After the event the number of groups signed up to use CLIMB increased significantly with over 200 groups from institutes across the UK signed up. Individuals regularly communicate on the CLIMB forum with advice and support on how to use CLIMB. The service that CLIMB offers has enabled researchers in the UK to perform bioinformatics work that they were previously unable to do due to lack of compute resource and know how. It has also been a useful aid to the teaching of undergraduate students. Below is a quote from one of the CLIMB users:

'Yesterday's practical went wonderfully. We started the day with a big blob of raw data and ended up with 12 fully assembled Staphylococcus genomes and nearly 90 happy (we hope) undergrad students. We didn't have a single issue with any of the VMs.

Massive thank you to you for setting this up! It is amazing you guys can offer this service to the community for free.'

Mixed academic audience attended the National Consortium for Microbial Genomics Meeting (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Lovisenberggata 8, Oslo, Norway) on December 7, 2017. The MRC-CLIMB infrastructure and the applications of the cloud in population genomics of bacterial pathogens in the Cloud received a warm welcome by the audience. The attendants reported a great interest in the infrastructure and recognized the value of the cloud system for microbial bioinformatics.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

DEVELOPING PIPELINES FOR BACTERIAL EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A workshop about the latest techniques for analysis of populations of bacterial genomes and how the CLIMB project can be used for this.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

Dell-Intel understanding the challenges of HPC

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Industry/Business

Results and Impact

A talk to a mixed audience about the CLIMB team's experience in building a cloud system.

A talk to a mixed audience on how bioinformatics and the CLIMB infrastructure can be used for studying Microbial Ecogenomics.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Genome Science talk

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A talk about the CLIMB project: how the cloud was built and the service that the CLIMB project provides for the academic community.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015,2016

Description

Hackathon: CLIMB, Big Data and Public Health Microbiology

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

A hackathon was held at Warwick University with representatives from academia and Public Health England. The objective was to investigate how analysis of Big Data can help inform public health microbiology. The CLIMB infrastructure was used for the hackathon and the CLIMB fellows were involved in teaching. Since the hackathon there has been further collaboration with CLIMB and PHE.

A workshop to develop the bioinformatics community and to look at Common Bacterial Genome Analyses using the CLIMB infrastructure. Led to ongoing connections and more people singing up to use the CLIMB service.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Introduction to CLIMB for microbial bioinformatics - Leicester

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Local

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

The seminar was run by Andy Millard on February 16, 2018, at the University of Leicester. The primary goal was to introduce the system and to get the microbiologists at Leicester using the MRC-CLIMB infrastructure. The easy-to-use CLIMB, together with the softwares that it hosts, was well received and the access from Leicester to CLIMB increased since then. We stride at providing a tool that researchers can use for free, that gives them all the assistance they need in running the analyses and that satisfies the needs of microbiologists. Bioinformatics is a bottle-neck for microbial research, because microbiologists don't have the tools and the expertise to analyze and interpret their data. The MRC-CLIMB project aims at providing them with this expertise, and more microbiologists are using CLIMB after the seminar. Moreover, having more people using CLIMB helps us improving the system, as we want to meet the needs of researchers day by day.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2018

Description

Introductory Workshop on Microbial Community Bioinformatics

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

A workshop was held at Warwick by some of the CLIMB team to teach Microbial bioinformatics to postgraduate students.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Invited Talk at University of Notre Dame about CLIMB

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

A talk about the CLIMB project: how the cloud was built and the service that the CLIMB project provides for the academic community.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

MRC CLIMB workshop at the MRC Unit, Gambia

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

Some of the CLIMB team ran a introductory bioinformatics course using CLIMB at the MRC Gambia Unit. This builds on a long standing collaboration between researchers at Warwick and the MRC unit in the Gambia. The audience were a mix of students, postdocs and PIs, who had a greater understanding of bioinformatics and its importance after the course.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

MRC-CLIMB workshop in The Gambia, 2018

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

A CLIMB delegation ran a bioinformatics workshop in The Gambia, in collaboration with the MRC Unit in Fajara (The Gambia), that hosted the course. One day (Jan.22) was dedicated to set up the course (computer performance test, virtual machine, workshop simulation), then 21 students attended the three-day workshop (January 23-25) and were introduced to bioinformatics, cloud computing, Illumina and Nanopore sequencing, microbial genomics and metagenomics, phylogenesis and phylogenetic trees. Aims of the course were defined with Gambian tutors, and the activities were planned accordingly. The success of the workshop is well documented in a survey filled by participants at the end of the course: quality of presentations, assistance during the workshop, relevance for their research were reported to be very good or excellent. The MRC-CLIMB Unit in The Gambia is interested in making it an annual appointment.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2018

Description

PHW Antimicrobial Stewardship meeting

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

Participation in a workshop about antimicrobials. Discussed how genome analysis using the CLIMB system could contribute to their development. Led to ongoing connections made and an increased interest in the CLIMB service.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Presentation at OpenStack Summit

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Industry/Business

Results and Impact

One of the CLIMB investigators presented at a compute infrastructure meeting in Texas. The audience were keen to hear and learn about the experience the CLIMB team had putting together a cloud using OpenStack (cloud computing software). Ongoing connections were made at the meeting.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Press release about our project infrastructure

Form Of Engagement Activity

A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A press release in a publication read by both academia and industry about the CLIMB team's experience on building the CLIMB infrastructure and the service that it will provide to UK academia.

A workshop including people from across Public Health Wales including epi and lab-based researchers, to discuss the implications and limitations of genomics for health protection.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Public Health Wales Genomics awareness sessions

Form Of Engagement Activity

A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Policymakers/politicians

Results and Impact

Public Health Wales Genomics awareness sessions including coverage of the software/computational challenges and a brief introduction to CLIMB. Led to further collaborations and more people signing up to use CLIMB.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

RedHat White Paper on CLIMB

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Industry/Business

Results and Impact

A talk to a mixed audience about the CLIMB team's experience in building a cloud system.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structure

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A talk for a mixed academic audience looking at how bioinformatics and the CLIMB infrastructure can be used for Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structure

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Talk at BMFZ meeting in Düsseldorf: Genomics and metagenomics in medical microbiology: opportunities and challenges

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A talk to a mixed academic audience about the CLIMB infrastructure can be used for analysing genomics and metagenomics in medical microbiology. This led to requests for a CLIMB account.

Talk at the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) Infrastructure Group meeting in Oxford

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A talk and discussion about the CLIMB infrastructure.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015

Description

Talk for Dell: Accelarating Understanding in HPC

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Industry/Business

Results and Impact

A talk to a mixed audience about the CLIMB team's experience in building a cloud system.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Talk: Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A talk and discussion about how CLIMB can be used for bioinformatics, and how public health can use big data analysis to inform new policies.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015

Description

Talk: RedHat Storage Seminar

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Industry/Business

Results and Impact

A talk to a mixed audience about the CLIMB team's experience in building a cloud system.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

Teaching Bacterial Genomics as part of MRes Data Handling and Statistics module

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Undergraduate students

Results and Impact

CLIMB was used to teach undergraduate students in Cardiff about bacteria genomics

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2015,2016

Description

Teaching Introduction to Bioinformatics as part of integrated MBiol 3rd year project module

Form Of Engagement Activity

A talk or presentation

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Undergraduate students

Results and Impact

CLIMB was used to teach undergraduate students in Cardiff about bioinformatics

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

Description

Work with Public Health Wales to develop a genomics service based upon virtualisation approaches

Form Of Engagement Activity

A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

National

Primary Audience

Professional Practitioners

Results and Impact

Work with Public Health Wales to develop a genomics service based upon virtualisation approaches using the CLIMB infrastructure

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016,2017

Description

Workshop at the Society for Applied Microbiology

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

Regional

Primary Audience

Postgraduate students

Results and Impact

A bioinformatics workshop was run at the Society for Applied Microbiology during the 6th ECS research symposium. University of Westminster, 19 april 2017. After a CLIMB demo, attendants used the infrastructure to perform fast analysis. CLIMB gained new users during the symposium, and more new accounts were created after the workshop.

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2017

Description

training school on (un)targeted metagenome analysis

Form Of Engagement Activity

Participation in an activity, workshop or similar

Part Of Official Scheme?

No

Geographic Reach

International

Primary Audience

Other audiences

Results and Impact

A workshop for a mixed academic audience looking at how bioinformatics and the CLIMB infrastructure can be used for studying metagenomics

Year(s) Of Engagement Activity

2016

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